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Posted By: 67avion on 08/26/18 09:43am

Ticki2, I am forever amazed at your depth of knowledge, and willingness to share it. Thanks!

On another less pleasant subject. Does anyone have any experience with portable waste tanks? In particular using them for both black water as well as grey water....and where in the world do you store a tank? I can imagine stuffing it into the bathroom, I suppose. But, unless its really clean it could be a problem, not to mention bulky and in the way.

Posted By: ticki2 on 08/26/18 10:02am

Thanks , I try . Several years back Billtex did a right up using a tote on a hitch haul to add capacity , might be in TCU .

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Posted By: JoeChiOhki on 08/27/18 01:34pm

67avion wrote:

I use a 45 gallon thetford, I put big eye hooks (the lag bolt kind) into the underside of the floor on the rear overhang and uses ratcheting straps to cinch the tank up to the underside.

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Posted By: garryk6 on 08/28/18 11:34pm

I may try to get my C10 down off the saw horses tomorrow to get it low enough so that I can start prepping the camper for the new stable lift being built in Montana now.
Hopefully will get to use it this fall.
I hope everyone else is getting to use their Avion this summer.
Hope to hear from more of you soon!
Garry in Kodiak

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Posted By: 67avion on 08/29/18 08:51am

JoeChiOhki wrote:

I use a 45 gallon thetford, I put big eye hooks (the lag bolt kind) into the underside of the floor on the rear overhang and uses ratcheting straps to cinch the tank up to the underside.

Is there any chance you could post some photos?

Posted By: ticki2 on 08/29/18 09:05am

67avion wrote:

JoeChiOhki wrote:

I use a 45 gallon thetford, I put big eye hooks (the lag bolt kind) into the underside of the floor on the rear overhang and uses ratcheting straps to cinch the tank up to the underside.

Is there any chance you could post some photos?

Matt did you reinforce the floor to hang an additional 360# on the overhang ? I'm not sure an Avion floor could take it .

Posted By: JoeChiOhki on 08/29/18 01:38pm

ticki2 wrote:

67avion wrote:

JoeChiOhki wrote:

I use a 45 gallon thetford, I put big eye hooks (the lag bolt kind) into the underside of the floor on the rear overhang and uses ratcheting straps to cinch the tank up to the underside.

Is there any chance you could post some photos?

Matt did you reinforce the floor to hang an additional 360# on the overhang ? I'm not sure an Avion floor could take it .

I only used this method for transporting empty between camps in this configuration.

When I was using it, the camper was generally off the truck, so I either just hitched it to the truck and towed it to a dump site (if it was in a short distance), or used a set of harbor freight tailgate ramps to roll it up into the back of the truck to haul.

These aren't the best photos of it in use, but they're the only ones I have of it in play during a 10,000+ mile journey across the country.

You can see it poking out a bit from the underside of the rear overhang. The tanks hanging upside down so that it had a flat surface to clamp up against the underside of the camper's main holding tank.

Posted By: ticki2 on 08/29/18 05:21pm

Now I get it , thanks .

Posted By: GoinThisAway on 08/30/18 07:52pm

Hey 67avion, I passed by on I-57 going to and from St Louis recently. Would have stopped by but I was in the "company" car so I just waved instead [emoticon]

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Posted By: 67avion on 08/30/18 08:25pm

Hey there, You can stop at our place anytime. We have a guest house that is the bees knees that you can use if you give us enough warning.

DG

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